[MR] Fitted and Supportive Kirtle/Cotehardie

[Betty Eyer]

Thanks! I got this suggestion from several people
offline, and I think it is the only one that would
work for me.  Putting the support in a back laced
underdress and then a button up overdress that is
slightly looser makes perfect sense to me.  Sometimes
the obvious escapes me. 

Good luck on the diet.  Not doing Atkins, but I have
also managed to lose through the holidays.  Hope I can
keep it up through New Year's and 12th night!

--- Denise Nelson <denisen at ftml.net> wrote:
> 
> The one I'm currently at work on has a supportive
> (spiral laced)
> underdress and a slightly looser (non-supportive)
> overdress. 
> Unfortunately, I've stopped work on it while I'm on
> the Atkins diet (who
> else can loose 3 pounds while on a two week holiday
> vacation?) and it
> wasn't finished, so I can't tell you how it turned
> out.  I'm hoping that
> there will be less to support this summer!
> 
> Good luck!
> Lady Alienor de Narbonne
> 
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:08:22 -0800 (PST), "Betty
> Eyer"
> <betty_eyer at yahoo.com> said:
> > I don't know what any of the ladies look like who
> have
> > recently posted, so please do not take this as a
> > personal comment.
> > 
> > I have looked at these websites and admire these
> > industrious ladies who obviously have put a lot of
> > work and time into getting a particular look.  And
> I
> > have made similar dresses with various levels of
> > success and failure.  Notable is the otherwise
> > beautiful but unfortunately spiral black dress
> with
> > lovely pewter buttons to accentuate the twisted
> fit.  
> > 
> > Maybe the illusive and undocumentable explanation
> for
> > the fit of these dresses in period is due to the
> fact
> > that the standard of beauty was then, as in our
> own
> > time, thin and somewhat flatchested teenagers???? 
> > 
> > And if you do succeed in fitting one of these
> dresses
> > to lift up a large and somewhat less than bouyant
> > chest, how the heck do you keep the buttons from
> > pulling into an unflattering gap, unbuttoning
> > themselves, tearing the fabric, popping across the
> > feast table when you sneeze, etc.?  No joke, all
> of
> > these things have happened to me with the button
> down
> > the front fitted dress.  I finally got one to look
> > good by sewing the bust together with a whip
> stitch so
> > that the pressure is not on the buttons at all. It
> is
> > quite a spectacle when I have to get in or out of
> it.
> > I got the idea that I was not what the designer of
> > that style had in mind.
> > 
> > In this modern time, the style is to have stretch
> hip
> > hugger jeans worn with tops that don't quite make
> it
> > to the waistband of the jeans.  I don't wear that
> > style and fitting the jeans differently will not
> make
> > it flattering.  My teenage step daughter looks
> cute as
> > pie in it.
> > 
> > Word.
> > 
> > --- "Kathrina A. Black" <kblack at breckenvale.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Many months ago someone posted a link to a
> website
> > > that showed with great photos and text, how to
> make
> > > a fitted kirtle (or cotehardie, can't remember
> > > which) that would support your bust.  Does
> anyone
> > > know this website?  If so, could you please post
> it.
> > >  I saved it to my favorites, but when my
> computer
> > > crashed, I think it was lost.
> > > 
> > > -Catriona inghean Ghiricc
> > >
> >
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